Saa7146 devices

Saa7146 devices are collectively those PCI cards that are based upon the Philips SAA7146 chip, and which are supported under Linux by the SAA7146 driver package (details outlined below).

SAA7146 Driver Package Information

In contrast to the drivers for other popular PCI interface chipsets, such as the bttv and saa7134 kernel driver modules, there is no unified saa7146 driver. Instead, there is a driver core where so-called extension can be hooked on. The driver core is split up into non-video (pci core, i2c) and video parts.

The most popular extension is "ttpci" (budget, budget-ci, etc) for the popular Technotrend/Siemens/Hauppauge DVB cards.

Installation

The saa7146 driver package is part of the 2.6 kernel series. If you have a recent distribution, you already have the drivers for free.